Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-03
ABOUT TEN WOMEN.
Something About Their Prominence
and Their Occupations.

and Their Occupations.
NEW YORK, April Though Henry
George has acquired such large celebrity
his wife's name has hardly been mention
ed in the papers that speak OF him so
often and so much. She is = thorough
home body, devoted to her husband and
their four children. She is one of the
small, plump, CHEEKY bodies that never
get down hearted, and people who have
known them long time say that but for
her untlagging devotion and enthusiastic
belief in him, Mr.. George would never
have been able to come triumphantlv
through the long period OF straitened
means aud hard work which preceded his
sudden success.
People who know Nina Van Zandt say
that she is very different woman from
what the newspaper accounts would have
one to think. They say that her love for
Spies Is a genuine affection. as deep
and intense as that OF girl tor her first
hero.
Mrs. Josephine Redding Ia one Of the
most successful women journalists In New
York. For several years she has been the
editor of the Art Interchange, and under
her management that paper grew 80 sue
cesstul that its publishing company found
it necessary to establish another paper,
sort OF annex, the Home Decoration,
and at onoe installed her In its editorial
chair. She conducts both publications
with so much ability that
they have large calculations
aud are financially very successful.
slight and brown-haired, with pretty,
piquant face and charming, viyaciOus
manners.
Kate Field is very fond Of riding, and
when she lived in New York always kept
a horse, which never lacked for exercise
and of whose intelligence and accom- plish-
ments she was very proud. She is a good
hOrsewomRn and makes fine figure on
horseback.
Bertha Won Hillern, who has been gain
ing good deal Of success as an artist
since she quietly gave up pedestrisnism a
few years ago, is q devoted Catholic. In
the wilds of West Virginia. where she
spends her summers, she will walk ten
miles and back under the burning sum-
mer sun whenever the possibility occurs
of attending mass. During her brief
winter sojourns in Boston she rises before
day, walks long distance to the cathe-
dral, attends the first mass and walks
back to her hotel in time for an early
breakfast.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett IS small
in stature, but very plump, and has a
large square face, with fresh English
complexion, She ia very youthful and
cnquettish in her manners and talks in a
girly-girlish kind OF way. Those who do
not like her even go so far as to say she IS
very affected in her manners.
Although Miss Murfree seems to have
leaped into fame at a single bound, she
has really been writing for long time. 1t
Is ten or a dozen years since the sigma
ture of Charles Egbert Craddnck first APP
peared In the magazines, and ever since
then her stories of the Tennessee noun
tains have been frequent visitors to the
pages of several magazines. But they did
not attract attention until the English
went into raptures over "W here the Bat
tie was Fought" and then she suddenly
found herself famous.
Mrs. Jenness Miller, whose system OF
aesthetic dress reform is beginning 70 at
tract good deal Of attention, was once a
dressmaker, but her enthusiasm for
woman suffrage was aroused, and she
left her dressmaking for the lecture plat
form and spoke through Massachusetts
for the sutfragists. She after " ard espous-
ed Ben Buffers cause and delivered sew
eral addresses in his behalf during his
successful campaign fer the Massa-
chusetts Governorship.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has always be-
dubbed "strong- minded" some twenty
five or thirty years ago, but even that
reputation and herConcord philosoph too
do rot lesser her terror OF crossing a
crowded street. She will gaze helplessly
across, cling to any body who offers assist
ance, stand In the middle of the street
and stare at an approaching horse car
and then grab up her skirts and run back
just as scofting men declare women al
ways do.
Lucy stone, to all young women whom
abe meets, In any way whatever, is the
OF motherliness. One in
thinks OF her as being the
ideal matron ola home for young girls.
she Is small aud incI easing years have
made her rather stout, while her fresh
and rosy complexion cause her TO look
much younger than she really is.
CATHERINE HAWKINS.